Non-latin characters in the url and ajax problems

These troubles have some history for me. In a month a go I experienced problems with calling ajax scripts with url holding utf8 characters – bulgarian alphabet for example. So I wrote a javascript function which actually was a bit messy that could handle the problem using encodeURIComponent. Afterwards I found that I simply could use urlencode in php which was a better choice according to me at that time. It looked far more clear to me, so I rewrote the functionality. Guess what – IE 6 problems. No matter that in the output of the javascript function encodeURIComponent and the php function urlencode seemed to be the same! So I had to revert back the functionality and thought to improve my javascript function and will just share that to you as it seems to be a very generic solution that will work with any url … Here it goes:

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